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Old 28 March 2011, 08:01 AM
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i have a red soob that looks pinkish,any ideas of what i can use to restore the colour and what to use to seal the paint so it dont happen again
Old 28 March 2011, 10:31 AM
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i use tcut colour polish.

it has the normal paint resoring properties of tcut with the added bonus of a colour tint which works well to fill in small scratches and stone chips.

it obviously cant work miracles but works well and leaves a nice deep shine and nice and smooth ready for waxing.

one tip though, wear some rubber/latex gloves as you will end up with stained hands. my cars blue and i end up looking like a smurf!!!
Old 28 March 2011, 10:51 AM
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http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/index.php

The missis ripped the pi$$ out of me when she asked what I was looking at on the laptop and I told her a car cleaning forum. Just be wary ok - try and dress it up so it sounds a bit less... sad.
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My j reg mk2 golf gti had the same problems. I tried many things but the best and longest lasting results required: -

T cut; then turtle wax colour magic; then turtle wax prestige wax (Dark Green and black bottle) and then turtle wax prestige resin.

It only took about 4 hours

I'm sure there's better products on the market but halfrauds were doing a buy 1 get 1 free deal at the time.
Old 28 March 2011, 11:20 AM
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Give it to any half decent bodyshop and ask for a compound machine polish

it sounds brutal but its just a gritty compound that will peel off the dull paint, I think its G4 compound (its been a while)

Should expect to pay 50 - 85 quid
But it will look the berries
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cheers guys i bought some t cut colour restorer and after a few hours it brought the car bak up any ideas on a decent wax to stop it going back to pink again thanks
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Autoglym for me everytime.
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i use dodo juice, expensive but worth every penny.
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